PIVOT Center Research on Opioid Use Featured

Brigham Vital Lines offers news for physicians about research and clinical practice at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Vital Lines recently featured research by Dr. Losina and colleagues at the PIVOT Center. The team found that preoperative opioid use was associated with poor pain outcomes 6 months after total knee replacement (TKR) among 156 TKR recipients. The study was published this spring in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Click here to read the story and learn more about opioid use in knee osteoarthritis.